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Message-ID: <08316b1f-a88f-1eb5-5ab2-06c23900cae7@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 15:09:59 -0700
From: Doug Berger <opendmb@...il.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/4] net: ethernet: validate pause autoneg
setting
On 5/13/2020 6:49 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> So, I think consistency of implementation is more important than fixing
>> this; the current behaviour has been established for many years now.
>
> Hi Russell, Doug
>
> With netlink ethtool we have the possibility of adding a new API to
> control this. And we can leave the IOCTL API alone, and the current
> ethtool commands. We can add a new command to ethtool which uses the new API.
>
> Question is, do we want to do this? Would we be introducing yet more
> confusion, rather than making the situation better?
>
> Andrew
>
I think it is likely to introduce more confusion.
-Doug
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